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Non-Finiteness - A Process-Relation Perspective (Hardcover)
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Non-Finiteness - A Process-Relation Perspective (Hardcover)
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'Non-finiteness' is a phenomenon that occurs in most natural
languages, whereby a verb is not inflected by grammatical tense,
and does not possess the grammatical features of aspect, mood or
voice. Various theories have been developed to explain their
distribution and their role in clause structure, but many instances
of non-finiteness remain unaccounted for. Taking a functional
approach, this study proposes a 'process relation framework' to
explain the more complex, previously unaccounted for, instances of
non-finiteness in clause structure. It applies the framework
comparatively to non-finiteness in English and Chinese, showing how
it can be applied across typologically distinct languages. Drawing
on corpus-based instances and observations, it introduces numerous
thought-provoking cases, in which constructional (or combining)
types and the predictability of non-finiteness co-occur. In terms
of application, non-finiteness is decisive in categorising language
types, and it is critical in processing natural languages, text
segmentation and annotation in particular.
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